iShares MSCI China ETF (NYSEARCA:MCHI) is down 8.74% year-to-date, giving back most of a strong 2025 rally that had investors excited about a Chinese equity recovery. The fund exists to solve a specific access problem: most investors cannot easily buy shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or mainland Chinese markets, so MCHI packages that exposure into a single U.S.-listed ETF tracking the MSCI China Index. But access and performance are two different things, and right now the performance side is under rea ...

Unity Software (U) shares pushed higher on March 27 after the game software company reported its preliminary Q1 results that came in ahead of its prior guidance. Investors cheered the San Francisco-headquartered firm also on reports that U is considering selling its China business at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Despite today’s surge, however, Unity stock remains down nearly 60% versus its year-to-date high. More News from Barchart www.barchart.com Why China News Warrants Buying Unity Stock? ...

So Dan, this is the obviously the challenging part which is um all the the the noises being made on either side and all the actions in terms of you know positioning troops and everything are perfectly consistent with people trying to maximize a negotiating posture before you actually talk and get to an agreement or consistent with we're digging in. So I mean the market is is kind of got to just figure out. >> So So I'll I'll tap my well-trained geopolitical brain here.Uh it feels to me like we're getting re ...

Asia Economics | Asia Pacific March 19, 2026 08:30 PM GMT M Foundation Oil and related commodities – exposure guide Over the past two weeks, we have covered different facets of macro implications from geopolitical developments. In this comprehensive slide deck, we have refreshed and aggregated the analysis, bringing it to you all in one place. 更多资料加入知识星球：水木调研纪要 关注公众号：水木纪要 Morgan Stanley Asia Limited Chetan Ahya Chief Asia Economist Morgan Stanley Asia (Singapore) Pte. Derrick Y Kam Asia Economist Derrick.Ka ...

Oil Instability Calls for Diversified Natural Resource ETFs For advisors and investors alike, one key sector many have kept a close eye on amid the 2026 Iran war is oil, and energy prices as a whole. Granted, this should not come as a surprise. Whenever geopolitical conditions escalate in the Middle East, oil trade via the Strait of Hormuz tends to suffer grievously, and this conflict is no exception. In recent weeks, the price of oil has whipsawed up and down, fluctuating by what the latest headlines infer ...

The S&P 500 rose 1.1% in early trading after the United States delivered a proposal to Iran aimed at halting the conflict. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 529 points, or 1.1%, at 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.3%, AP reported.Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell 5.4% to $94.78 per barrel amid expectations that easing hostilities could allow smoother flow of oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf. Despite the rally, markets remained volatile as uncertainty persi ...

Shares in refining, logistics, and biofuels company Delek US (NYSE: DK) rose by 8.6% today, buoyed by a combination of a rise in the price of oil and a BofA analyst raising the company's price target on the stock from from $28 to $40. However, the analyst maintained an underweight rating on the stock, and even the revised target is below the current stock price. Why Delek US stock is soaring in 2026 The stock is up almost 55% so far in 2026, and there's little doubt about the reason. In common with many l ...

In overnight trading on Sunday evening and early Monday morning, the corn (ZCK26) and wheat (ZWK26) (KEK26) futures markets were posting decent gains, and so were Brent (CBK26) and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) (CLK26) crude oil futures. Then, around 7:00 a.m. Eastern, President Donald Trump posted on his social media account that the U.S. and Iran had productive talks, and the U.S. was halting its military strikes on Iran’s power grid for five days. All hell broke loose in the marketplace, led by WTI cr ...

All right, my next guest says this market's been bedubbled by rotation of fear. I mean, you kind of know these, right. Geopolitical, private, client, equity, credit equity, and of course, AI spending.I want to bring in Slaystone, their chief equity strategist, Aaron Gibbs. And you know, Aaron, I want to go over all of them with you, um, one at a time, but I do want to ask, can you can you rank them. Like, of the three, which one is the most, >> you know, which one has the most depth that you know, that that ...

Key TakeawaysGeopolitical risk spiked as Iran launched a new wave of missiles at Israel, prompting Kuwaiti air defenses to activate and sending S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures down 0.1% in early trade.Gilead Sciences (GILD) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ouro Medicines for $1.675 billion in upfront cash, targeting first-in-class T cell engager programs for autoimmune diseases.Australia’s economy signaled a sharp downturn as the Flash Composite PMI plunged into contraction at 47.0, while weekly consu ...